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Energy: Disconnections

Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many customers have been disconnected by energy providers over the last eight quarters, broken down by energy company. [212892]

Malcolm Wicks: The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) collects and publishes data about gas and electricity disconnections. In the eight quarters to quarter 3 2007, the last period for which data have been published, the number of disconnections for debt by supplier was:

Number of customers disconnected for debt each quarter
	2005	2006				2007
	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3
Electricity
British Gas	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ecotricity	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
EDF Energy	61	45	66	103	99	71	89	181
Good Energy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
npower	4	13	51	95	102	117	94	87
npower Northern	2	31	7	5	28	34	22	61
npower Yorkshire	2	4	0	3	41	87	32	46
Powergen	54	107	52	48	26	49	79	124
Scottish and Southern	27	11	26	23	37	50	64	31
Scottish Power	17	2	23	85	124	136	202	142
Telecom Plus (Electricity Plus Supply)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
First Utility	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Utilita	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	168	213	226	362	457	544	582	672
Gas
British Gas	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Countrywide Gas	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
EDF Energy	143	81	118	161	166	120	206	278
npower	171	298	366	382	340	602	543	490
npower Northern	0	40	9	16	56	52	33	54
npower Yorkshire	14	20	20	22	68	57	33	38
Powergen	198	194	163	188	99	189	153	293
Scottish and Southern	142	78	156	172	187	162	293	132
Scottish Power	30	12	30	171	241	205	277	177
Telecom Plus (Gas Plus Supply)	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
First Utility	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Utilita	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	698	723	865	1,112	1,159	1,389	1,538	1,462
Total electricity and gas	866	936	1,091	1,474	1,616	1,933	2,120	2,134

Olympic Games

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department
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plan to attend the Beijing Olympic games; for what purpose in each case; and what estimate he has made of the cost. [212120]

Mr. Thomas: My noble Friend the Minister for Trade Promotion and Investment will be in Beijing from Thursday 21 August - Tuesday 26 August and will attend the closing ceremony only of the Olympic games.

The purpose of Lord Jones’ visit is to promote British business capability, foreign direct investment and partnership opportunities in general as well as business opportunities arising from the London 2012 games. During his visit Lord Jones will support several key business events and initiatives.

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